LOVELL — Apple historian John Bunker will journey through Maine’s orchard history at 7 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 20, at Charlotte Hobbs Memorial Library.

Bunker is the founder of Fedco Trees and the Maine Heritage Orchard. He has been searching Maine’s countryside for the past 40 years for ancient apples. When he finds them, he preserves them for future generations.

Why care about the old ancient varieties? Where did apples come from? What is grafting all about? What happened to Oxford County’s iconic Black Oxford and Winn Russet? What is in store for the future? Bunker will answer these and other questions.

Participants should come with questions and apples to identify. 

Bunker and his partner Cammy Watts have been homesteading on Super Chilly Farm in Palermo since 1972. His farm is home to more than 200 varieties of rare and historic apples.